Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-25

miles from this city by the sea-" The
Directors of the colony intend to render
this hotel the most attractive and whole
some on the Pacific coast, and hope to
make it sanitarium for Northern invalids
which will justly become the pride of
Mexico.
Among the Improvements, the colonists
have cut wagon-road from their pier
around " Howard Ridge "-all rock-work
to the plains beyond and the author.
tiles of Mazatlin have removed the Custom
House officials who have hitherto been
located at Zaragoza, to Topolobanpo,
where the landing is now open TO the gen
eral public-under proper restrictions of
course, that the peculiarities of the conf
munity be respected by all who use their
property.
The sites for series of dry docks, Gus
tom House, hospital, Sailors Home In
dustrial College, etc., have each been Sc
lected with the greatest care, and will be
forever reserved for such purposes-all this
forethought and method being eminently
characteristic of these people. These
things cannot be accomplished in day, or
year, for all great enterprises, like the
sturdy giants of the forest, are slow
growths; but we may be sure that sub
stantial work will be done here with amaz-
ing rapidity, as compared to the building
OF cities elsewhere, and that the good seed
sown by these husbandmen, though it
may not reach full fruitage in their day,
will be enjoyed by coming generations.
No sHoDDY WORK OF ANY KIND
Is allowed here. Even every section of
| sea- wall which is put up must be sub
stantially finished, TO form its part of a
| magnificent system of quays. fronting
| deep water. Every home, no matter how
small-for some may contain but one room
will be built according to general plan,
so thoroughly studied out in every minut-
est detail by the founder of the new de-
parture, that the tiny apartment will in
| time form part of perfect block. As with
the building, so it is with the pavements,
and indeed with everything, each portion
| planned carefully and scientifically with
reference to the completed and harmonious
whole. The strong point of these peculiar
! people is the absolute perfection in the
smallest details, every action being the
deliberate outgrowth of fol bought and
concentration.
THE CoLoNIsT RAILROAD.
| 1t cost the colonists much time and labor
| to get the railroad line Just as they wanted
| il. From the landing ii runs due north
nearly five miles, from which point it
| turns north 900 east (magnetic), and con-
tinues this tangent 304 miles to Vegaton, to
| extend later some miles beyond. In all
! that distance there is not hill or depres-
| sion on the airline, the grade being 50
| inches to the mile, and for two-thirds of
| the way the ties can be laid on the ground.
The line was cut through 100 feet broad,
and is to be widened to 200 feet. Seven
hundred telegraph poles are already in
| Topolobampo. and one of the colonists has
! taken the contract to furnish $4,000 ties-to
| be paid in Mexican silver at the rate of 40
| cents per tie delivered on the line. The
wood is the famous pal0 colorado, a species
| of redwood much used in mining timber
and warranted TO last hundred years.
The.levels for pipe and brick water-tube
| have been run from point on the river
| six miles below Vegaton, and the fall from
| the river bottom to Camp 90 OH the line
| of the railroad, near the eastern boundary
of their Mochis' ranch comprising SO, 800
aci esq is thirty feet in distance of twenty
four miles. From that point to the city
| site, twenty miles distant, the fall is sixty
| feet.
| L. 4. GOULD, OF CALIFORNIA.
| Who ran the levels and studied the re
| sources of the farm, estimates in his report
| that the entire Mochis tract can be irri-
gated for dollar an acre. This same Mr..
Gould, after spending weeks with the
| Topolobampoans, went to California to fix
| up his affairs there, III order TO establish
himself permanently ameng the eolonists
| next fall. He is one of the best known
horticulturists in Fresno and in his report
on the Credit Foneier Company SAYS
The soil of the Mochis will average well
| with that of the celebrated fruit country OF
| the Fresno plain in California. With the
railroad and pipeline completed. we have
| in this exceedingly fertile plain the greatest
possibilities in horticulture and agricult-
ure. Never having any frost and very
little fog, it will be most desirable place
| to live"
Mr.. Gould planted more than ten thou
sand selected trees, vines. berries, etc,
brought with great care from his California
farm. He says they are all doing we'll on
the Credit Foncier lands at Sufragio-in
| fact, growing faster in that virgin soil than
he ever saw them before He predicts
| great future wealth to the company in
! fruits, and asserts that without irrigation
| the olive will yield a certain and profitable
crop. Mrs. Woodruff, one of the colonists,
reports that vegetables of every class sown
in the company's garden at Sufragio came
up with surprising rapidity, and that in
flavor and size they equal any ever eaten.
| HEALTH AND HOMES.
| at present there is no sickness at all in
| the colony. There We're seven deaths dur
| ing the first five months, four Of them
from smallpox. The houses at Sufragio,
Vegaton and Cahuinahui are made of brick
and adobe, under the direction of Engineer
| Fays The sugar mill is working briskiy
at their farm in CahuinaEui; wells have
| been sunk in the Mochis rancho and Pa
cific City; the channel is buoyed out in
| three and one-half fathoms of water at low
tide, and colonist fishermen have made a
requisition for harpoons, etc, with which
to capture some of the whales and por-
poises that daily sport in Joshua straits.
These are but few of the facts at hand,
| given by wholly disinterested parties who
| have lived with the colonists in Sinaloa.
some OF whom made the most searching
investigation with view to casting among
| them their worldly all. They should be
SUFFICIENT REPUTATION
| OF the highly colored stories to which we
have been treated-of sickness, suffering,
starvation and death at Topolobampo.
Some of the widest of those false accounts
emanated from persons who were never
| within several hundred miles of the place
whose woeful condition they 50 graphic
ally described
As for the seeding conspirators, who
one night folded their tents like the
Arabs, and as silently stole away the
| main trouble with them was chronic dis
taste for work. Although matters had
been fully explained to them, and the diff
culties in the way fully set forth, their
vivid imaginations had somehow pictured
paradise already prepared in the wilder
ness by miraculous means. When they
finally came to understand that their daily
bread must be honestly earned, and all
proprietary claims in the city by the sea
fully paid for in money or labor for the
benefit of the whole, 1t was more than their
lazy selfishness could endure. Hence their
undignified flight, and the hbelous items
with which they have been flooding the
press 10 cover their own periidy
FANNIE 3. WARD.
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GAMBLING IN MExIoo.-A short distance
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